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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/11/defeating-nondeterminism/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Feedly Summary: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can’t be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had…

  • Slashdot: New AI Model Turns Photos Into Explorable 3D Worlds, With Caveats

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2312210/new-ai-model-turns-photos-into-explorable-3d-worlds-with-caveats?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: New AI Model Turns Photos Into Explorable 3D Worlds, With Caveats Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Tencent’s release of HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model for generating 3D-consistent video sequences from single images, represents a significant advancement in generative AI technology. Despite its limitations, this innovation has…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud’s open ecosystem for Apache Iceberg

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/committing-to-apache-iceberg-with-our-ecosystem-partners/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud’s open ecosystem for Apache Iceberg Feedly Summary: AI is transforming data into a strategic asset, driving demand for flexible, integrated, and real-time data architectures. But yesterday’s data tools can’t handle AI’s demand for massive volumes of real-time and multi-modal data. Data lakes, for instance, offer flexibility…

  • Slashdot: Google Improves Gemini AI Image Editing With ‘Nano Banana’ Model

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/26/215246/google-improves-gemini-ai-image-editing-with-nano-banana-model?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Improves Gemini AI Image Editing With ‘Nano Banana’ Model Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google DeepMind has launched the “nano banana” model (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), which excels in AI image editing by offering improved consistency in edits. This advancement enhances the practical use cases…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing general availability of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/firestore-with-mongodb-compatibility-is-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing general availability of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility Feedly Summary: At Cloud Next ’25, we announced the preview of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, empowering developers to build cost-effective, scalable, and highly reliable apps on Firestore’s serverless database using a familiar MongoDB-compatible API. Today, we’re announcing that Firestore with…

  • Cloud Blog: Building next-gen visuals with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gemini-2-5-flash-image-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Building next-gen visuals with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Today, we announced native image generation and editing in Gemini 2.5 Flash to deliver higher-quality images and more powerful creative control. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is State of the Art (SOTA) for both generation and…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Agents Need Data Integrity

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/ai-agents-need-data-integrity.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Agents Need Data Integrity Feedly Summary: Think of the Web as a digital territory with its own social contract. In 2014, Tim Berners-Lee called for a “Magna Carta for the Web” to restore the balance of power between individuals and institutions. This mirrors the original charter’s…

  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…